"It's very good for an idea to be……" — Penelope Fitzgerald
"It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are."
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Penelope Fitzgerald
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17 Quotes by Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald has 17 quotes on this site.
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I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other…
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More than that, I believe that the grass is green because green is restful to the human eye, that the…
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The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of…
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A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is…
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I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated,…
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Experiences aren't given to us to be 'got over,' otherwise they would hardly be experiences.
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It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the…
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings…
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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond…
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Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.
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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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